Watson Fellowship

A Thomas J. Watson Fellowship provides a one year grant of $36,000 for purposeful, independent study and travel outside the United States.

A Watson Year provides fellows with an opportunity to test their aspirations, abilities and perseverance through a personal project that is cultivated on an international scale. The Fellowship offers college graduates of “unusual promise” a year of independent, purposeful exploration and travel—in international settings new to them—to enhance their capacity for resourcefulness, imagination, openness, and leadership and to foster their humane and effective participation in the world community.

Eligibility

Open to graduating seniors only

Haverford Internal Deadline

September 16, 2019 by 5:00 p.m.

Selection Criteria

Qualities sought in the selection of fellows include:

Leadership

Imagination

Independence

Emotional Maturity

Courage

Integrity

Resourcefulness

Responsibility

Intention to Apply

Complete the Intention of Applying Form by June 1 which asks for your name, email address, and telephone number; a one-paragraph statement of why you want to be a Watson Fellow; and a one-paragraph description of your proposed project.

How to Apply

The Watson Foundation wants students to use their national online portal for applications. Email Amy Feifer to be invited to access the Watson Foundation portal. Sections to be completed in the portal:

Personal Data

Project proposal

Personal statement

Activities

Employment

Travel

Languages spoken in project countries and other languages spoken

Unofficial Haverford transcript

Please have 2 letters of recommendation (at least one of which must be from a Haverford or Bryn Mawr faculty member) sent to Amy Feifer directly via email, afeifer@haverford.edu or hard copy, Stokes 300 by the deadline. Provide your writers with the Watson Recommendation Form.